Die zerrissenen Jahre

Get to know our ensemble from another side, in the intimate setting of the Kammerspiele! A book, five chapters, a big lecture event. Throughout the entire season, the Bochum ensemble will read from the book Die zerrissenen Jahre (Fracture: Life and Culture in the West) by author Philipp Blom. It begins exactly 100 years ago, after the end of the First World War in 1918, and describes developments up to 1938. Newspapers and radio are experiencing their best years, but books are still on fire in Berlin. The time that led to the Second World War becomes vivid in a unique way with eyewitness accounts, letters, live music and reference to Bochum’s history.

Chapter 4 (1929 – 1932): The World in Crisis (Stalin in Russia, Great Depression, End of the Weimar Republic, theater in Berlin, Max Reinhardt and Marlene Dietrich, Mussolini‘s and Hitler's rise)
Dramaturgy: Tobias Staab
May 2019